Esther Zuckerman

that also feels like a weird dead end.

And then as you said, David, like, we didn't make a movie before this with this kind of vibe, never made a film after this with this kind of vibe.

Not really, yeah.

Despite coming from comedy, this is a very gentle comedy, is not one hard on laughs, and his movies that have comedic elements tend to be harder comedic elements than this.

I had completely... Let's just do McDowell now then.

So the film stars Andy McDowell.

I had completely flipped in my mind that the reason she is so bad in Four Weddings and a Funeral is because it was before she kind of figured out her thing through working with better directors after.

Famously dope, but she's gorgeous, right?

Ben, producer Ben, she is cast as Jane in a live-action Tarzan movie, Big Warner Brothers production, because of her look.

Yeah.

She's very young.

And she's so bad in the film that they hired Glenn Close to re-dub all of the dialogue.

But she's landing immediately with this framework of like, well, she's nice to look at.

Who wouldn't?

She's one of the only people in the movie who doesn't get to be fun.

Yeah.

So much of that movie's embarrassing reputation is that everyone's like swinging for the fences and every character is overconceived.

And she's kind of playing the straight character.

A couple years of their life

It weirdly doesn't affect the movie that badly.